ROGER CELESTIN is Associate Professor of French and comparative literature at the University of Connecticut, and co-chair of French studies. He is the author of From Cannibals to Radicals: Figures and Limits of Exoticism (University of Minnesota Press, 1996). - ELIANE DALMOLIN is Associate Professor of French and co-chair of French studies at the University of Connecticut. Her book Cutting the Body is forthcoming with University Press of Michigan. - ISABELLE DE COURTIVRON is Professor of French studies at MIT. She has written books on Violette Leduc and Clara Malraux, and is co-editor of New French Feminisms and Significant Others: Creativity and Intimate Partnership.